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InhaltsangabeThe Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues.- The Annualized Social Cost of Motor-Vehicle Use in the U. S., Based on 1990-1991 Data: Summary of Theory, Data, Methods, and Results.- Full Social Cost of Transportation in Europe.- Uses and Meanings of Full Social Cost Estimates.- Estimating Whether Transport Users Pay Their Way: The State of the Art.- Externalities, Prices and Taxes: Second Best Issues in Transportation.- Efficient Use and Provision of Transportation Infrastructure with Imperfect Pricing: Second Best Rules.- Benefits and External Benefits of Transport: A Spatial View.- Behavioral Value of Travel Time Savings in Personal and Commercial Automobile Travel.- Societal Costs of Transportation Crashes.- Congestion Cost and Congestion Pricing.- Transportation and Air Pollution: The Environmental Damages.- Employer-Paid Parking: A Nationwide Survey of Employers' Parking Subsidy Policies.- Full Benefits and Costs of Transportation: Review and Prospects.

Allows a greater understanding of the relevance of social cost and benefit measures * Illustrates the braoder role of transportation in the economy *The first book to directly address the three different motivations for full cost analysis and their implications for methods and measurement * Combines North American and European perspectives